Noel Grealish (Galway West, Independent)
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348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons payments under the disadvantaged area scheme are slow to process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43356/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Payments under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme began, on schedule, on 25 September and, to date, payments worth €143.3 million, have issued to 67,538 applicants.

I can confirm that payment runs are continuing on a twice-weekly basis, with individual cases being paid after they are confirmed as having satisfied the Scheme requirements.